This is a list of the first music videos broadcast on MTV's first day, August 1, 1981. MTV's first day on the air was rebroadcast on VH1 Classic in 2006 and again in 2011 (the latter celebrating the channel's 30th anniversary).

MTV, originally an initialism of Music Television, is an American cable television channel that launched on August 1, 1981 by Warner Communications. It is currently owned by Paramount Global, and is one of the company's flagship brands. MTV's original focus was on music -related programming, including blocks of music videos.

MTV (originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable television channel. It was officially launched on August 1, 1981. Based in New York City, it serves as the flagship property of the MTV Entertainment Group, part of Paramount Media Networks, a …

2011年11月6日 · MTV went on the air with those words, a minute after midnight on Aug. 1, 1981. The first video was, of course, "Video Killed the Radio Star," by the Buggles. Few people saw the fledgling network;...

2024年12月15日 · MTV, television network that began in 1981 as a 24-hour platform for music videos and by the mid-1980s had a noticeable effect on movies and television, as well as the music industry. It launched the Video Music Awards in 1984, and in the 21st century it tried to position itself as a music destination on the Internet.

2009年11月13日 · In MTV’s early days, its programming consisted of basic music videos that were introduced by VJs (video jockeys) and provided for free by record companies. As the record industry recognized...

2021年7月30日 · Those were the words spoken by Warner Cable executive John Lack on Aug. 1, 1981, at 12:01 am when MTV — Music Television — went on air for the very first time. It was accompanied by the image of...

Before MTV The earliest ancestor of the modern music video was the soundie, a black-and-white 16mm film recording of a musician performing before a live audience. The first soundies appeared in 1940, and all the big singing stars and bandleaders recorded them: Bing Crosby, Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, even Lawrence Welk.

2023年5月29日 · The early makings of MTV date back to the 1970s when future President and CEO Robert W. Pittman began testing the format through a fifteen minute show called Album Tracks on WNBC-TV. As for MTV—the channel launched Saturday, August 1, 1981, at 12:01 a.m. EST with the words "Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll," and a clip of the first space ...

2024年4月22日 · Today, we interview a true insider on the early days of MTV. In the beginning: “On Saturday, August 1, 1981 , at 12:01 AM Eastern Time, MTV launched with the words “Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll,” spoken by John Lack and played over footage of the first Space Shuttle launch countdown of Columbia (which took place earlier that year ...